Y’all act like this is a new thing.
Anyone who commits a felony is vulnerable to this
Coming to the border and applying for asylum is a lawful procedure and there is no committed crime.
We, as a nation, are better than this. Let’s be real here, separating kids from parents while processing their return is not making anyone safer. This is simply a way to make immigrants suffer more and mess with their minds so that less people would try crossing in. It’s shameful to use kids as a bargaining chip. Now, regarding the fact that it’s the law and due process should be done, we should be thinking of the spirit of the law and not the letter. It’s similar to ani-sodomy laws. OP, imagine you are in Louisiana and your boyfriend is reaming your ass, wouldn’t you be just squealing in pleasure or there also you are thinking of the letter of the law of the land?
If I were getting stuck up the butt in Louisiana, I would be squealing at both the pleasure and the unconstitutionality of the former (keyword: former) anti-sodomy law as determined in Lawrence v. Texas. OK, I lied. I wouldn't be thinking of anti-sodomy laws at all since it's over 15 years in the past. In contrast, there is no judicial determination that separation of children and parents (in administrative, protective, and criminal contexts) is unconstitutional. The executive in the United States and almost all developed countries has near-unabridged powers in the realm of immigration, as it should. I'm as anti-Trump as they come but this line of argument is pathetic. "We, as a nation," have long tolerated the separation of families in criminal procedure. Felony violation of federal immigration law is no different.
Be real... this is a tactic by the administration to inflict pain on immigrants by hurting their kids... don’t justify it with legality. Trump or Sessions or whoever green lighted this was not worried about crossing the ts and doting the i-s of doing this legally, their intention was to use little kids as bargaining chips... spineless... kick everyone out, hold on to guns, build a wall, jerk off kim Jong un, worship putin, I don’t care... but be kind to kids and parents, keep them together and throw them back to the other side of the border if you want, but keep them together
What if I told you that seeking asylum isn’t against the law. What if I told you preventing asylum seekers from entering the US at the border, as Trump is instructing, is against the law. What if I told you the polling on this is enormously negative. What we’re doing is morally wrong. Even the evangelicals are having a hard time with this one. You see. A wall doesn’t help. There’s still border crossing. These people will come no matter what.
I believe the topic of this thread is the family separation issue. I have no idea what the wall, evangelicals, or polling has to do with this. As for your first argument, you're correct that "preventing asylum seekers from entering the US" is against the law. But back to the issue of family separation... no one making an asylum request at a U.S. port of entry is being detained. Detaining those who cross the border at unrecognized points of entry is the prerogative of a nation's executive, and our friends in Western Europe might have us beat here.
Trump used the caravan as a justification for the wall. Yet they just go directly to border agents. Polling on separating children is enormously negative. Common sense. Evangelicals are Trumps largest base. They don’t like it either. Very much anti-Christian. All these issues converge.
American citizens lose their families everyday for everything from misdemeanors to CPS involvement. I’m not crying any tears for non citizens on this issue.
Sure. But losing the kids is f'ed up
Only when proven guilty
What if I told you that unlawful entry to the country is a misdemeanor, not a felony?
Faux outrage is the new hotness!
We aren’t falling for this bs
Yeah even my liberal friends call BS on this one.